Werner Volkmer (May 16, 1944 - June 12, 2020) was a German-Canadian documentary filmmaker.Ariane Émond, "La vie généreuse du cinéaste Werner Volkmer". Le Devoir, June 19, 2020. He was most noted for his 2000 film Searching for Louis Archambault (À la recherche de Louis Archambault), which was the winner of the Jutra Award for Best Documentary Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001."Eight Jutras for Maelstrom". Playback, March 5, 2001.
Born in Haan, Germany, in 1944, he studied communications, advertising and design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Kassel before emigrating to Canada in 1970, where he was a cofounder of the Aquilon Films studio."FIFA win buoys Aquilon". Playback, April 17, 2000.
He received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Documentary Program at the 5th Gemini Awards in 1990 for Batiya Bak!, a documentary about Turkish immigrants to Canada.Christopher Harris, "E.N.G., Avonlea top Gemini nominees Awards in 54 categories will be handed out Dec. 2-4". The Globe and Mail, October 24, 1990.
In addition to its Jutra Award win, Searching for Louis Archambault was also the winner of the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2000 International Festival of Films on Art, and the award for Best Arts Documentary at the 2000 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival."The Holier It Gets tops Hot Docs fest". The Globe and Mail, May 9, 2000.
Volkmer died in 2000 in Montreal, aged 76.
Filmography Power Behind the Wings (Moteur) - 1979 In Good Company (En bonne compagnie) - 1982 Cole Palen's Flying Circus - 1987 Batiya Bak! - 1990 The Astronomer King (Le Roi astronome) - 1992 The Bomb Under the World (Le compte à rebours sa poursuite) - 1994 Mexico: Escaping from History (Mexique: Rompre avec le passé) - 1994 South Africa: The Tribal Mind (Afrique du sud: L'esprit tribal) - 1994 Searching for Louis Archambault (À la recherche de Louis Archambault) - 2000 Roussil, or The Curious Destiny of an Impenitent Anarchist (Roussil, ou Le curieux destin d'un anarchiste impénitent) - 2003
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